Take a drive from Santa Cruz to San Francisco and see all the best beaches and state parks along the famous Highway 1.

For years, the English Rose in San Carlos, an old-fashioned tea house, was where single mom and executive assistant Angela Pierucci took her two children to celebrate birthdays. Then, in 2012, the ...

Against the glare of the late afternoon sun, the seemingly endless stretch of tide pools at Mavericks Beach in Half Moon Bay turned so reflective I had to squint to avoid tripping on rocky ...